“The administration’s wholesale disregard for the law led Oklahoma and Nebraska to sue Colorado to stop the stream of illegal marijuana flowing into our states as a result of Colorado’s legalization of the commercial production and sale of marijuana.”

Americans live in a federalist system so even though marijuana is illegal under federal guidelines, individual states still have the authority to legalize it.

But because marijuana is still illegal under federal law, Oklahoma and Nebraska have asked the Supreme Court to wade into the issue and overturn the Colorado law.

So far, Obama has had a hands-off policy concerning marijuana and lets the states experiment as they choose, but now the Supreme Court is asking for some guidance.

Colorado, meanwhile, has asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit, saying the marijuana discussion is changing political views across the country and that the nation is in the middle of re-evaluating its stance on the issue.

Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, Washington state and the District of Columbia have all legalized the recreational use of marijuana and many other states have allowed its medical use or decriminalized it, including Nebraska.

We do know a few things though: marijuana is still prohibited federally as a Schedule 1 drug, the Obama administration has ordered the Justice Department to go after other crimes, and the war on drugs has been a dismal failure.